HEROES: Stamp of Disapproval

In September 1864, General William Tecumseh Sherman finally succeeded in
taking Atlanta. After surveying his well-equipped army in the Georgia
city, he proposed a bold plan which he thought would be so
destructive to military resources and civilian morale that the
exhausted Confederates would throw up the sponge and end the Civil
War. In November, after General Grant had reluctantly sanctioned this
maneuver, General Sherman assured everyone that he would "make Georgia
howl," and began his historic March To The Sea. A month later, when the
March ended at Savannah, Georgians had...